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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
fillets ; cover them with buttered paper, and bake in the oven for ten minutes. Make a sauce of one ounce of butter and a dessert-spoonful of flour stirred together till it boils ; add a little lemon-juice, and a gill of cream, and strain it ; arrange the fillets en cercle. Mask them well with the sauce, and sprinkle lobster coral, parsley, and truffles, and grated hard- boiled eggs over alternately. Serve lobster quenelles in the centre. This dish can be made with oysters or mushrooms instead of lobster. Sole a la Stella Cook a fair-sized sole that has been filleted into cutlets ; cut them into points to resemble star points. Mask some with white aspic cream, and the others with green aspic cream. Arrange them in a silver dish in the form of a star, white and green alternately, leaving a small round place in the centre, in which stand the heart of a lettuce ; put chopped aspic in between the points of the star and all round the dish. (See Plate V.) Timbale of Fish Pick the fish from skin and bone, after it has been cooked, cut it into fine dice and mix about half a pound of fish with rather more than a gill of white sauce; season with salt and pepper, a little chopped parsley, and lemon-juice. Mix two whole eggs thoroughly into it, put it in a plain greased timbale-mould PLATE V. ir ^ 1. Truite Saumonee a la Norvegienne. 2. Sole a la Stella. 3. Cutlets a la Rouge et Noir. 4. Medallions of Foie Gras a la Rosiere. 5. Whiting a la Russe. ^^'^^rr^^r^ ( P 'Tli Lie] FISH 41 Twist a buttered paper over it, and steam (do not let it boil) for three-quarters of an hour ; then turn it on to a dish, and pour over it a sauce made by frying a small minced onion in a little butter till on the point of turning brown, mix this with a table-spoonful of flour that has been mixed with a gill of stock and very little milk. Stir till it boils, then strain and return to the stewpan to warm up ; adding a little salt, pepper, a few drops of anchovy essenceSole k la Rouennaise, and a squeeze of lemon-juice. Morny sauce can be served with this instead of the above. Truite Saumonde a la Norvdgienne Make an ornamental rice socle ; then place on it a layer of white aspic jelly well whipped ; place round on the jelly very small dariole moulds filled with aspic and ornamented on the top with peas and carrots, the carrots cut into pea-shapes. On the centre of the socle lay the trout boiled and skinned except tail and head, place strips of red, white, and blue jelly side- ways across the trout ; on the head make a fleur-de-lis in yellow aspic cream and in the middle of the back a crown of same and a fleur-de-lis on the tail. Garnish with cut aspic. (See Plate V.) Turban of Trout Make a forcemeat of trout with aspic and cream., colour some green and some salmon colour, line a mould alternately with it, each layer about two inches 42 COOKERY A LA MODE thick ; press it well against the sides, leaving a space in the middle. Fill this space with some cucumber cut in slices and soaked in mayonnaise in which there is plenty of aspic ; place it on ice, and when ready to turn out decorate it with little balls of lobster cream and cucumber cut in pea-shape round the base. (See Plate III.) Turbot a la Grimaldi